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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 15563793, member: 101855&quot;]You can probably only do that if the price of gold bullion increases. Of course the price of the 1925 double eagle might go up too. </p><p><br /></p><p>The 2009 Ultra High Relief coin is a copy of a pattern coin the mint made in 1907 when the mint was looking for ways to make the high relief coins more easily. Twenty were struck, but only two survive in the Smithsonian collection. The coin has the diameter of a $10 gold piece, but twice the thickness. The mint could have only issued such a piece if Congress had approved of it.</p><p><br /></p><p>The 2009 version is a faithful reproduction of the original. It was made with modern scanners and lasers from one of the original coins. There was an interesting little book that was included with coins when they were issued from the mint about how these pieces were made. I think that it’s better than just a piece of bullion as a numismatic item, but the mintage was such that there are plenty of them to go around.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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